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The Garbage & the Flowers

Harry Howard / Slight Pavilions 

Old Places

Using the most abrasive elements of the Velvet Underground as a jumping-off point, the Garbage & the Flowers would spend more than 30 years developing their own insular and perpetually raw adaptation of psychedelic rock. The band's ability to be more caustic than punk in the same song where they displayed unabashed vulnerability or gentle sentiments made them stand apart even from their peers in New Zealand's underground circles, and their never fully formed lineup resulted in a slow, unsteady trickle of new output with years between releases. Their discography was already piecemeal at the time their 1997 collection 'Eyes Rind as if Beggars' was released, but they continued a shaky course for decades to come, playing sporadically and offering up new releases that could be loose archival material like 2008's appropriately named 'Stoned Rehearsal' or brand-new studio recordings on 2022 album 'Cinnamon Sea', an album of completely new songs recorded in an abandoned courthouse in a nearly vacant village in Southeast Australia. Despite Cinnamon Sea arriving more than 30 years into the band's career, it sounded as mysterious and outside of time as their earlier efforts.